1 Kings 5:11

5:11

cors ............. 20,000 baths <03734> [measures. Heb. cors.]

20,000 cors ............. 20,000 baths <06242 03734> [twenty measures.]

"Twenty thousand baths of oil" are mentioned in Chronicles; and the Syriac, Arabic, and Septuagint also have here "twenty thousand measures." But as barley and wine are also spoken of there, it is probable that the wheat mentioned here, and the small quantity of fine oil, were intended for the use of Hiram's own family, while that in Chronicles was for his workmen.

1 Kings 8:63

8:63

<02077> [a sacrifice.]

22,000 .... 120,000 <08147 06242> [two and twenty.]

We are not to suppose that all these victims were sacrificed in one day, or on one altar; for this was the whole amount of those that had been offered during the fourteen days which the feast of dedication and the feast of tabernacles lasted; and there appears to have been an altar erected in the middle of the court, which was set apart for that purpose, in consequence of the great altar of burnt offering being not sufficient for the multitude of sacrifices then offered.

dedicated <02596> [dedicated.]